Family Therapy

Georgia's finally gaining some weight. She's up to 11lbs 1oz. The running joke for our family right now is when Blake buys diapers he buys a big box and when I buy diapers I buy the smallest pack in hope that she'll finally grow out of size one diapers!!!  They're  finally getting a little snug, so we're getting closer to size 2 diapers. She'll be six months, she's so little still. I can't go anywhere without people asking how old she is and gasping how tiny she is. Some people say it casually, some people go on way to long asking a lot of questions about how much she weighs and what I'm feeding her. When they cross the line, I finally have to tell them the whole story, then they feel sheepish, it's helped me learn to keep my questions, curiosity, and comments to myself.

 I finally got her in some therapies, and its been really good for her and the whole family has joined in. We all gather around the tummy time blanket and play with her. She has brought so much love in our home. I've mentioned this before, but it cracks me up how the dialect in our home has become full of medical jargon. Blake was watching her the other day and he says, "Wow, great motor skills". Chloe told me, "Mom, I'm so proud she found out she has hands, now we've got to show her her feet."  (Georgia's hands never came together like other babies do, so we'd put them together for her, now we show her her feet, so she'll start to grab them.). I hear things everyday that I know other people would never hear from their kids.

We went to the Festival of Lights parade last night with the whole family, and believe it or not, that was therapy for Georgia. The feeding therapist told me that too many families shut themselves in and don't go out. She said, if you're an active family (which we are) stay active, get out, take trips, build those experiences. Georgia will develop behaviors based on not having the normal experiences. It's honestly therapy for the whole family, we need those experiences as well. We went with some dear, dear friends who just moved back from Colorado. It was so nice to see our kids play together and have fun. It was nice to visit with a friend. Most of all, I really love to be with my husband, he makes me laugh and is such a fun dad. Georgia didn't know what to think at first, but she fell asleep soon after while I pumped milk into her belly on the parade route surrounded by hundreds of people. She's getting used to being a part of our wild family ;).

I keep envisioning her life as she grows, and there are so many unknowns, but I can picture her running around with the kids doing all the stuff they do in her own special way.